Improvement in advertising apparatus



N. T. SCOTT. Advertising Apparatus.

No. 202,966. Patented April 30, 1878.

N.PETERS. PHOTO L THOGRAPHE UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

NELSON T, SCOTT, OF WESTVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT I N ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 202,966, dated April30, 1878; application filed July 9, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELsoN T. ScorT, of Westville, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement inAdvertisingApparatus, of which the following is a specification:

The invention is more especially adapted for advertising purposes, andeach view-which may be, for example, the representation of a businesscard-is held stationary with reference to the lantern for a sufficientlength of time to attract due attention, there being by this meansprovided an efl'ective method of calling public attention to the movingadvertisements without superintendence or attention.

The invention comprises a novel combination of parts whereby therequisite intermittent movement of the circular frame with reference tothe hood and lens of the magic-lantern is provided for.

, Figure 1 is a side elevation of an apparatus made according to myinvention, and Fig. 2 a plan view of a portion of the mechanismindicated in Fig. 1.

A. is the hood or body of the magic-lantern, and B the cylinder, in theouter end of which is provided the lens C, the usual lamp orilluminating device being provided in the ordinary manner with the hoodA. The hood A is suspended upon braces or standards D, to permit the.requisite play of the circular frame E, this latter carried upon avertical axial shaft A, on which is also provided the spur-wheel B. Thisspur-wheel B receives an intermittent motion by the action of thetooth-sectors a, provided on the wheel C, actuated by a system ofordinary clock-work. (Represented at G in Fig. 1.)

The views to be displayed are arranged around the circumference of thecircular frame D, and attached thereto in any suitable manner; andinasmuch as the said frame receives an intermittent movementcorresponding to that of the spur-wheel B, and inasmuch as the parts areso arranged that each intermission in the movement of the frame bringsone of the views into due relation with the lamp and lens of themagic-lantern, it follows that the said views will be presented insuccession to the lantern, to be magnified and displayed thereby, eachview remaining in such immovable position a length of time proportionedto the distance between the t-oothsectors a on the wheel C, each Viewbeing, of course, displayed during such period with full and goodeffect.

What I claim as my invention is- The combination of the wheel C,constructed with the system of sectors a, the spur-wheel B, the circularframe E, and the lens and hood of a magic-lantern, substantially as andfor the purpose herein set forth.

N. T. SCOTT.

Witnesses EDWARD HOLLY, H. WELLs, Jr.

